Herobrine
This mysterious figure has so many different interpretations it would be somewhat unhelpful to create yet another one but I wanna throw my hat into the ring anyways. Besides it’s Halloween, why not have a bit of fun making up some spooky stories about video games.
Herobrine is a legendary ghost story told across the minecraft universe. Many worlds have reported sightings of him, and they all tell differing stories about his mythos. One common underlying theme however, is that Herobrine is some sort of evil entity.
However, the true nature of Herobrine cannot be truly quantified as good or evil. For in reality Herobrine is just a manifestation of loneliness. He is always reported as being found in worlds where only one minecrafter resides, shyly sitting in homes, peeking around corners, or standing in the deep fogs barely outside of view.
As I’ve explained in a previous post, worlds are inhabited by humans who’s souls are projected from a far away point in space. Worlds are created and inhabited by that soul’s subconscious, as one ventures deeper and further into that world, the subconscious creates more and more until it becomes overwhelmed with too much information resulting in strange reality breaking anomalies such as world borders and the far lands. But a different kind of overwhelming can occur, one that is an overwhelming feeling of loneliness.
Herobrine is what happens when a human’s spirit grows lonely and seeks to populate the world with more humans but fails to find any real connections. Herobrine is merely the ghost of your loneliness. As your soul desperately tries to create more minecrafters, it fails spectacularly, resulting in a human who is void of life and who only exists in the corners of your eye and mind. It is why the eyes have no pupils, for the eyes are windows to the soul and how can a window show what is not there?
Of course, eventually souls DID begin to successfully create humans to keep themselves company. But these humans tend to be of a more simplistic nature. Still not quite amounting to the complexity of a fully functioning human with the abilities of minecraft. This is why we seldom ever see Herobrine sightings anymore, because in addition to largely being a hoax, Herobrine has no need to exist if the soul can adequately fill in that space of loneliness with more pleasing if not simpler figures.
The tale of Herobrine is a sad one. His existence is paradoxically real and not, and his purpose was ultimately never accomplished. If he could feel, he would most likely feel sorrow for the fact that he never got to know us, and we only ever knew him as a demonic ghost, instead of the friend he was created to be.
Happy Halloween, stay minecrafting, and remember...
the universe loves you :)